Wilhelm Krichbaum

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Wilhelm Krichbaum (also Willi or Willy Krichbaum ; * May 7, 1896 in Wiesbaden ; † April 4, 1957 in Oberpfaffenhofen ) was head of the secret field police , later an employee at the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and deputy head of the Gestapo . After the Second World War he worked for the Gehlen Organization and then for the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

Act

Before 1914, Krichbaum worked as a forestry assistant, then volunteered for the army when the First World War broke out and was there with the field police.

After the end of the war, he worked in the Freikorps Oberland and became its managing director of the organization in Dresden, which later became known as the Bund Oberland.

Krichbaum joined in 1923 the NSDAP - local branch in Dresden at. In 1926 he was the leader of the Dresden Feldjäger Corps . During the Second World War, Krichbaum was border inspector southeast with his seat in Dresden at the border police and eventually became head of the secret field police. The units subordinate to him "committed war crimes and crimes against humanity on a large scale in the" fight against gangs "in close collaboration with the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD, in particular on the territory of the occupied Soviet Union, " according to the judgment of the Nuremberg Trial. Krichbaum was promoted to SS-Oberführer and Colonel of the Police.

After the Gestapo was incorporated into the Reich Security Main Office as its Amt IV, Krichbaum became a representative of the Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller on March 1, 1941 .

In 1948 Krichbaum appeared as a witness in the trial against the Wehrmacht High Command . In the same year he was accepted into the Gehlen organization and, as head of the general agency L, recruited many former secret service agents of the Third Reich , including Heinz Felfe, who was later exposed as a KGB agent in November 1951 . Krichbaum later headed the BND network of sleeping agents. After Felfes was exposed in 1961, the BND also suspected Krichbaum of spying for the KGB.

literature

  • Robert Winter: Secret perpetrators: Wilhelm Krichbaum between the Nazi field police and the Gehlen organization , Militzke, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-86189-832-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Carsten Schreiber: Elite in the Hidden - Ideology and Regional Rule Practice of the Security Service of the SS and its Network Using the Example of Saxony , Munich 2008, p. 41
  2. ↑ Ralf Julke: "Books: Secret perpetrators: The portrait of a Nazi official with prelude and epilogue". Leipziger Internet Zeitung , March 22, 2010, accessed on April 20, 2010 .
  3. ^ "From the early days of the BND". Der Spiegel , May 12, 2001, accessed April 20, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Krichbaum, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krichbaum, Willi; Krichbaum, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German secret agent and SS-Oberführer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1957
Place of death Oberpfaffenhofen